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Wow that's a huge crater. It's bigger than the Vredefort impact structure in South Africa. The Vredefort dome is the second oldest at 2 billion years old that c

Wow that's a huge crater. It's bigger than the Vredefort impact structure in South Africa. The Vredefort dome is the second oldest at 2 billion years old that can be seen here: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b5/Vredefort_Crater%2C_South_Africa%2C_OLI_satellite_image%2C_27_June_2018_cropped.png https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b5/Vredefor... And the full-sized version: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/52/Vredefort_Crater%2C_South_Africa%2C_OLI_satellite_image%2C_27_June_2018.jpg https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/52/Vredefor... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vredefort_impact_structure https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vredefort_impact_structure

vidanay 3y ago
> The impact structure was formed during the Paleoproterozoic Era, 2.023 billion (± 4 million) years ago. > The asteroid that hit Vredefort is estimated to have been one of the largest ever to strike Earth since the Hadean Eon some four billion years ago... Let that sink in (ugh) for a while. The Vredefort impact was so long ago, it's almost completely eroded away today. And yet, when it occurred the Hadean Eon was as ancient then as the Vredefort is to us today. The mind boggles.
hinkley 3y ago
There's another one straight north in the second picture. That one looks like someone dropped a rock in mud on a hot day. I was confused about why the pictures seemed to have different craters, until I found the one you're talking about in the middle.